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...failing such a dramatic turnabout, the writing is on the wall in the Elian Gonzalez case: Despite political maneuvering by the anti-Castro exiles and their allies on Capitol Hill; despite a battery of lawyers pursuing every loophole in the legal system; despite apocalyptic threats to turn Miami's Little Havana into another Waco, Elian Gonzalez looks set to return home to Castro's Cuba...
...demonstrators who gather outside Lazaro Gonzalez's home each day with promises to block the little boy's removal may be less concerned about finding themselves on the wrong side of the law than about finding themselves on the wrong side of history...
...excuse for the economic hardship the country has suffered since the 1991 collapse of his Soviet patron (which had subsidized Castro's revolution to the tune of some $7 billion a year). Castro has a monopoly on the media in Cuba, and has used the embargo - and the Elian Gonzalez case - to paint Washington as hostile to all Cubans...
...Elian Gonzalez was fated to arrive in Florida at a time when the anti-Castro lobby was desperately looking for an issue on which to anchor a counteroffensive against Washington's incremental moves to relax the embargo. No sooner was the boy out of the hospital than his face had appeared on posters printed by exile activists to protest Cuba's attendance at World Trade Organization talks in the U.S. last December. But while fear of messy protests may have kept Castro away from Seattle, the exiles are being forced to confront the reality that he has, for the most...
...older generation, the battle to save Elian from Castro's Cuba be a way of renewing their own faith and identity. But the reality remains that Elian Gonzalez is likely to grow up in a world from which both Castro and his fiercest foes have departed. It must be hoped that he may transcend the trauma their battle has visited upon...